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In a recent report published by accounting and consulting firm PwC Israel, the state of the Israeli high-tech sector in 2023 reveals a significant downturn, with exits amounting to $7.5 billion—a stark 56% decrease compared to the previous year. This marks a substantial 91% decline from the record-breaking $82.5 billion in exits witnessed in 2021

The Ministry of Finance announced that agreements in principle had been received for Intel to build a new factory in Kiryat Gat with an investment of 25 billion dollars. According to the ministry's statement, Intel "is expected to hire thousands of additional workers in Kiryat Gat. It was agreed to significantly increase the tax rate that the company will pay to the state from 5% today to 7.5%. As part of its commitments, Intel is expected to finish the investment and start the plant's operations by 2027 and continue to operate it until at least 2035." Intel will receive a grant of 3...

The big lotteries on discounted apartments are back this week. On Sunday, registration opens for a large raffle of about 10,000 discounted apartments in 150 different projects in 31 localities across the country, in the north, in the south and also in the center. The lottery comes after a long period in which large lotteries for discounted apartments were not held under government housing programs, for several reasons, including political instability, government turnover and housing programs, and, of course, bureaucracy. The current big lottery is the first in the new "Target Price"...

The aerospace industry's management continues to prepare for the issue, despite demands from the workers' committee that is delaying it. The management, headed by CEO Nimrod Shaffer, presented to the company's board of directors a long-term equity compensation plan for the aerospace industry, which will be implemented when the issuance of 25% of the company's shares is implemented. The remuneration program includes distributing shares to RSUs (shortening Restricted Share Units) that will mature over several years. The plan is in the approval stages of the Government Companies Authority and...

Meta Networks was acquired by the American cyber company ProfPoint for $ 120 million. Of which 111 million in cash and the rest in shares. The company was founded two and a half years ago and has raised $ 10 million to date. The deal is expected to be signed in the second quarter of 2019. The purchaser is an American cyber company traded at a value of $ 7 billion on the US stock exchange. The value of the holdings of the two Vortex and BRM funds will bring them to an exit of $ 35 million on an investment of only $ 5 million

The state-owned apartment rental company and the Israel Land Authority announced this morning that Parshkovsky onstruction company is the winner of a long-term rental project as part of the roof agreement, in a new neighborhood in Lod, which will build on Ben Shemen's land. The complex will include 352 units of which 286 are long-term rental apartments. The Ben Shemen project is the second project of the Parshkovsky Company as part of apartment tenants and is joining a project of 320 housing units currently being built in West Ramla. Lod agreed to the project despite recently announcing...

The second closure interrupted the recovery process of the Israeli economy in the third quarter of the year. This emerges from the Bank of Israel's membership survey published on Monday. Although activity in the economy continued to shrink from July to September, the recovery from the peak of the corona crisis was felt in the economy. The survey shows that the balance sheet of the business sector improved in the third quarter but remained at a very negative level. Although the balance of output in manufacturing recovered in the third quarter, it remained negative. The negative balance...

While the unemployment benefit ceiling is NIS 10.5 thousand per month, in practice unemployment benefit payments have been much lower in recent months. Thus, only 2% of the recipients of the benefits received more than NIS 10,000, and 64% received less than NIS 5,000; This emerges from data published by the National Insurance Institute. According to the data, 4% of unemployment benefit recipients receive less than NIS 1,000 a month and 9% receive between NIS 1,000 and NIS 2,000. 38% of benefit recipients receive between NIS 3,000 and NIS 5,000 per month. Since the beginning of the crisis,...

The Legal advisor of the government and the Cheif procecuter Avichai Mandelblit officially announced on Thursday evening that he has decided to adopt the recommendation of the police and the State Attorney's Office and not open a criminal investigation against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the stock affair. The attorney general states that the prime minister received benefits, but the offense is statute-barred. At the same time, Mandelblit referred to the submarine case (Case 3000) and announced following the petition of the Movement for Quality of Government to the High Court to...

A senior medical procurement officer claims that last week, about 160 respirators were brought to Israel from abroad. He said that at the same time, the production of respirators in Israel accelerated and two new production lines were added, so that every week several tens of respirators are added in Israel. "We will meet the target of 7,000 respirators," he concluded. In the background, the Ministry of Defense announced that in the coming days, 11 Israeli aircraft will complete an air train of equipment from China